Darkness' little taunts part two
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"Wow! This place seems to be smaller than I have remembered." Maverick looked everywhere as he started to remember the buildings that he had his training and such.
"Yea... But back then you were a little boy, with not much potential." Trent chuckled.
"Shaddup." Maverick shoved his brother to the side, making his shoulder hit the wall beside him.
"Enough you two, we're in the base and you both should know that they prohibit such horseplay." Jace fixed his glasses and almost collided with someone in front of him.
"Gomen nasai! I'm-" As he looked up, he noticed a familiar face looking down at him.
"Ca-Commander Rizal!" The two saluted while, Maverick looked at them with a raised eyebrow.
"So you're Maverick... It's been a long time since I've sawn you in your training classes. As you know I'm Commander Rizal. Dante and Jace's high ranking officer." The tall man extended his hand towards Maverick as both of them greeted one another.
"Hello, commander Rizal. It's a pleasure to meet you." Maverick smiled.
"Oh! At ease you two." Commander Rizal chuckled as he brought the three to the conference room.
"Please have a seat, while I'll brief you about your mission." Commander Rizal extended his hand, motioning them to their seats.
"So why did you want us to go to Alaska or whatever..." Maverick rested his arms onto the table.
"Since Winter is here, I want you to go to a mountain resort in California. We've been keeping an eye on that place and well. There has been some movement from our enemies over there." With that, he pushes some manila folders towards the three.
"I want you three to act like your tourist, spending some time relaxing." He crossed his arms.
"You bet your ass we will!" Dante smirked as he imagined himself snowboarding on some wicked mountain slopes.
"Ahem..." Commander Rizal cleared his throat.
"Don't forget to survey the whole resort. To check if there has been some sort of change at that place." He gazed towards Dante who leaned back a bit, looking at his commander with an innocent smile on his face.
"Right..." The tall man turned around.
"So- all you want us to do is to check if there is some unusual change over there and check it out right?" Jace fixed his glasses. Commander Rizal nodded in reply.
"The folders that I've given to you have all the information that you need for your mission. Your passport, social security, birth certificate, anything you can think of." The three opened their folders and examined the things they got.
"Um... Sir... Winafred?" Dante raised his eyebrow. He looked at him a bit confused.
"OH heh heh. Pass me that folder." A bit embarrassed, he quickly grabbed the folder and gave Dante his true folder.
"You'll be going to the airport in two hours, be ready and get dressed." Commander Rizal left the room as the three contemplated.
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"Man I can't sleep..." Kigen sat up from her bed. Using her hand to comb her hair away from her face, she stood up and walked into the bathroom.
"Damn it's only two o'clock in the morning. I only had like three hours worth of sleep." She grumbled as she rinsed her face with cold water. She grabbed her face towel and wiped off any excess water from her face as she walked down the stairs and into the living room.
Seeing that if she turned on the television, it would probably wake up the other two. The red-banged girl then walked towards the front door as she gently opened the door. Quietly closing the door behind her, she stealth fully climbed up onto the garage roof, proceeding to go up onto the very second floor.
"Ahh this is more like it." She then laid down, placing her hands behind the back of her head making it comfortable for her to lay of the stoned roof tile. She gazed upon the star lit sky, thinking about what had happened the previous day.
"Wow a brother- I've never thought that I of all people, would have a brother." She whispered to herself. A bit of a smile came over her, delighted that someone who had the same blood like hers, running through their veins was worried about her and the work that she's in. The cool breeze swiftly passed by as Kigen sat up, holding herself from the cold air.
"I knew that you would be here." Akuma's head popped up from the side of the rooftop. He sat right beside his friend, holding a blanket with him.
"My, my, my- is that blanket for moi?" Kigen giggled as he placed the blanket over her shoulders.
"Thought that you might need it. So why are you up here anyways?" Akuma looked up upon the beautiful night sky.
"Well I was just thinking about what just happened there past days." Kigen yawned tiredly.
"Oh... Don't worry Kigen, Jace and Dante will be taking good care of Maverick." Akuma smiles as both of them looks up upon the star.
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"WOW! This place ish huge!" Maverick picked up some snow from the ground and smiles with excitement.
"Yep, ain't it grand!" Dante lit up a cigarette and shook his hand to die out the flame on the match.
"Now remember... we're on a mission so we-" Before Jace could finish his sentence, A huge snowball hits him on the back of his head. Snickers were heard behind him as he wiped off the snow from his head.
"Alright! Who threw that!" Jace turned around, but gets hit with another snowball. More snickers came out from the two as they walk towards the trunk of the car.
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"How's the command post?" A higher ranked officer yawned as he lean towards the screen while another typed.
"There are no uncommon disturbances other than the ski resort near us." He veered the surveillance camera closer towards the ski resort, seeing people just fooling around and having no fear at all.
"Good, keep at it soldier." The higher ranked officer left the room as the soldier did his work.
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"WOW! This place is HUGE!" Maverick grew a big smile as he walked into the living room.
"AND LOOK! Three rooms with beds in them!" Maverick threw himself onto the bed as his body bounced on the bed.
"And it's a water bed." He kept on bouncing while the other two brought the rest of the luggage.
"Get off that and help Maverick, you aren't a four year old that me and Jace is baby-sitting." Trent threw a pillow from the couch at him.
"Well to me I am a four year old!" Maverick chuckled as he threw the pillow back towards his brother, but accidentally hits Jace on the head.
"Damn you two are obnoxious together. Dante wasn't like this when he was with me and the other crew..." Jace, a bit weirded out by his friend's change of personality.
"Lets just say that it's an instinct."
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"Wow! A mission without Maverick... How strange, right Kige'?" Akuma yawned.
"I guess... Since it's been a long time since we worked alone ne?" Kigen fixed her laces for her boots.
"You guys ready?" Cypher yawned, since it was a bit early for them.
"Sure are. Let's get this thing started." Akuma struck his fist into his awaiting hand.
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"Ummm... I'm taking the master bedroom... Why dun you two get the other two rooms." Jace unpacked his computer software and other electronic devices.
"Sure will, Jace." Dante took out a cigarette and placed it partly in his mouth as he reached into his pocket to get a light.
"Smoking bad for you..." With that, Maverick pulled the cigarette out of his brother's mouth and placed it into the fireplace.
"Since when did you start smoking Dante?" Maverick knelt down in front of the fireplace and watched the fire burn as Dante walked to his side.
"Two years ago... I suppose." Dante sighed, as he looked down upon his little brother.
"Personal problems?" Maverick quietly spoke.
"You could say that."
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Alarms wailed as soldiers scrambled around, trying to find the source that triggered the alarm.
"You there, check the eastern part of the base, while you take the opposite part. Move. MOVE. They couldn't have gone that far!" One Lieutenant snarled as lower ranking officers went off.
"Damn! How did they know that we got in? I thought we disarmed all the alarms before we got in?" Akuma tightened his fist.
"I guess they had a backup, due to the last few times we infiltrated their base." Cypher flipped the lid of his mini laptop as he tried to hack into the bases system control.
Before he could press the enter button, the alarms stopped. The three was a bit confused as every soldier have stopped in their place.
"False alarm. You all may go back to work..." A person on the intercom spoke as everyone started to head back to what they were doing before the alarm started.
"That was close. But still I have a very bad feeling about this."
Kigen thought to herself.
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"Now let's get these things started. Um everything's all clear for now." Jace took a sip of his coffee as he started to type things onto his laptop.
Meanwhile, the two united brothers were to busy playing their playstation games to listen to Jace.
Clenching his fist, he grabbed something and flung it towards the two. "DAMN YOU TWO, LISTEN TO ME!" He snarled.
"Duck..." Dante mumbled as the two ducked as the item flew past them. The two then continued to play their game.
"Why must I be stuck with Dante, then poof! His double comes in, or should I say his brother. Man they act alike... I need something to take my stress away." Jace sighed.
"Hm... Something to take away his stress...." Dante questioned to his brother.
"A stress reliever is sex with a hooker for Jace." Maverick mumbled back to Dante as the two continued to play their game.
"I'm going to act like I never heard that..." Jace snorted as he went out of the room, past the living room where the two brothers were at, and into the kitchen.
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"ATTENTION! ATTENTION!! THIS IS NOT A FALSE ALARM! MAN YOUR BATTLE STATIONS! ATTENTION, MAN YOUR BATTLE STATIONS!" The intercom wailed, as all the alarms went off.
"Damnit. We hit a trigger device!" The three ran as fast as they could, dodging all the bullets and soldiers from left to right.
"I guess they got really serious after the day that we took their gundam away huh?" Akuma threw a punch to a male soldier that tried to block his way out.
They tried their best to reach the exit, but were not of use. Soon, the three was surrounded by Eve's troops. They crowded them, as they grew closer, tightening their spot, until they wouldn't have enough room for them to strike. Surely enough, Akuma tried to throw a punch at a group of soldiers, but only to be get his arm caught and then thrown down towards the ground, in a submission hold.
"Hm... 'Ello there ol' chaps, how may I be in ser'ice for y'u three. Only the three of you are here today? What happened to that red banged boy?" Eve looked towards Cypher and Kigen who had held their fist tightly. She then had set her eyes down towards the red headed boy.
"Alas, we meet again, cutie." She leaned over a bit as she smiled so innocently towards Akuma.
"What do you want, you crazy bitch!" Akuma snarled a he tried to get up, but to only get held down even more.
"Akuma, stay still..." Kigen Whispered as she looked down to him with fire in her eyes. Akuma started to relax, but has set his eyes back towards Eve.
"Akuma's your name is it? What a cute name for you. It matches, you being what your reputation stands for... The Demon Joker, Akuma..." With a snap of her fingers, her soldiers picked Akuma up and held him tightly.
"You know that you injured about one fourth of my troops when they tried to capture you all. But no bother, I still have more soldiers that would want to lose their lives just to keep my dreams alive." With that, Eve quickly gave Akuma a kiss and chuckled a bit.
Grossed out about the kiss, Akuma coughed and spat out the gross feeling he had.
"Awww... Akuma didn't like that?" Again, Eve laughed, having her hand partly covering her mouth.
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"Man... There's nothing.... Nothing going on here.... THIS IS SOOO BORING!" Dante flopped back onto the couch, as he leaned his head against the back part of the couch.
"You're telling me..." Jace sighed.
"This would be the first that we had a boring mission, Dante." His friend looked at him as he took a sip of his drink in the kitchen.
"You gotta be kidding me... THIS mission is the most boringest mission both of you had?!" Maverick was shocked.
"Yep..." But before Dante could finish his sentence, Maverick's communicator suddenly turned on.
"Damn you Eve... How the Fuck did you find out that we were here?!" Cypher growled as two men held him with a gun behind his back.
"The hell?!" Maverick ran to his room and grabbed his communicator.
"It's simple, my dear... I just simply hacked into your lines one day." She chuckled.
"Oh my god! My teams in trouble... I had a feeling that something bad would happen to them today..." Maverick bit his thumb hard.
"Damnit... I though our lines were secured!" Kigen mumbled. She then got punched into her stomach. The force from the punch made her fall onto her knees as she coughed and gasped for air at the same time.
"Now my soldiers... Bring them into a secured cell..." Eve chuckled as she walked out of the room.
"Kigen! How DARE she so that to Kigen!" Both Jace and Maverick shouted. The three were getting worried about the outcome as they clenched their fist together.
"LEMME OUT OF HERE! I NEED TO SAVE THEM!" Maverick darted off towards the door, but then Dante tackled him.
"Maverick, we're too far off, the only way we can reach them on time is to hack into Kigen's locator, but during that time, you have to wait for Jace to get going." Dante sighed, knowing that it would take a few minutes for Jace to hack into the gundams system.
"I'm on it!" Jace tried his best to hack into his sister's locator as fast as he could.
"I hope that you can do it as soon as possible, Jace." Maverick whispered as he watched the honey-blonde male type some codes into his laptop.
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"That bitch... THAT BITCH MADE HER SOLDIERS INJURE KIGEN!" Akuma growled as he embraced his friend protectively.
"Calmly down, Akuma. We mustn't be angry at this moment." Cypher stared at the locked door that was in front of him, phasing in and out at times.
"How can I be calm when my friend, our friend is hurt!" Akuma rushed to Cypher and held him by the collar of his shirt.
"I too feel that we should kill Eve for injuring Kigen, but I feel that we should wait for the right moment to do that and now is not the time." Cypher shoved off Akuma's grip and went back to staring at the door.
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"What shall I do to them... shall I torture them one by one... Or should I make them run a dangerous maze like lab rats... Or better! Let them feel what a holocaust feels like!" Eve giggled as she twirled her chair around while holding a letter opener with one hand.
"It's not safe to be holding a sharp object while doing that Eve." Zeroz had stopped that chair from going any further, as he looked at his sister from face to face.
"Oh dear brother, it's you! Guess what we've captured!" She smiled ever so happily.
"Lemme guess... Those renegades that stole your gundam and destroyed that base?" Zeroz slightly rolled his eyes.
"Yes! What shall I do with them, Zeroz? What shall I do?!" Eve smiled even more.
"It's not up to me... I'm staying out of this.." He then walked out from Eve's office.
"It's a shame... that you wont be able to see the show that I'll be showing" She sighed.
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"This is hopeless! We can't just sit around and wait for something to happen. I say that we should break free from this cell and get outta here!" Akuma slammed his fist into his awaiting hand.
"And what would happen if we did that? There's a whole army ready to shoot us if we try to do that." Cypher snarled at Akuma.
"And what shall we do when we are suddenly surrounded by them... We have no weapons to protect ourselves or the injured." Cypher looked at Kigen who just sat up.
"Akuma, please wait a while. I don't think that Eve's going to hurt us this time." Kigen struggled to talk, due to her rib being fractured from the blow.
"ERRRRR....." Akuma took a deep breath and mumbled, "Fine..."
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"WE FOUND THEIR LOCATION! Thanks to Kigen's locator." Jace shot up from his chair as Maverick rushed into the living room.
"Good! They're not that far... Heh, so we don't need Kigen's gundam this time... Let's get going." Maverick quickly walked to get his samurai sword that was in its sheath and guns as he strapped it onto himself as he grabbed his trench coat from on top of a chair and opened the door while holding his samurai sword in hand.
"Hey bro wait for us! Do you want to ride the sports bike or shall I let you walk to the base?" Dante held two bike keys as he wiggled it in the air.
"Hayaku! We don't have time!" As he rushed back to grab one of the keys.
"I hope that I got the red and black one...." Maverick mumbled as he walked out from the lodge as the two followed.
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The door slide open as five soldiers aimed their rifles at the three and told them to get out of the cell immediately. The three walked out as two of the five soldiers shove the three as they shouted to walk faster.
"Damnit! It feels like we're in the book I've read about a boy named Eliezer that had his whole family brought to a concentration camp." Kigen mumbled to herself.
"Oh that 'Night' book that you were reading about?" Akuma looked at his friend but then got hit in the back by the butt of a rifle.
"Shut up and keep on moving!" One of the soldiers shouted at Akuma.
"Damn your right Kigen." Cypher whispered as all three was shoved into an office room.
"Um.... Ok?" The three raised their eyebrows, weirded out on why they're in an office room.
"Welcome to my office." The chair turned around as Eve faced them with a smirk on her face.
"I see that ya'll are very comfortable stay here?" She stood up and slowly walked away from her desk.
"Not quite... But if you give us a couch, TV with cable, and food.... THEN we might be comfortable." Kigen sarcastically spoke as she straightened her posture.
"Ha-ha. Very funny. Do sit down." With that her minions forced the three to sit down on some chairs.
"I see that this time, I'll have my revenge upon you for destroying five of my bases and I mustn't forget that you also have stolen my gundam away from me." Eve sadly replied.
"Thank kami we did. If we didn't do all those then you would've destroyed the whole world by now." Cypher looked at Eve with fire in his eyes.
"I wouldn't call it destroying the world. I would call it reshaping the world into my own beliefs." Eve smiled as she grasped the globe that was right beside her and lifted it into the air.
"Blowing up buildings, killing billions, and mass producing illegal mechas-- Oh sure THATS the way to reshape the whole world to fit your needs. -- THATS A BUNCH OF BULL SHIT EVE!" Kigen sarcastically said to her.
"Well don't get me wrong but, that's the wrong way of rebuilding a world, Eve." Akuma looked at her. Eve looked at the globe that she held onto her hands, then to the three. A bit upset to what they told her, she threw the globe above their heads and landed right behind them.
"Don't tell me on what not to do when rebuilding the world. I'll do what I want to do and no one can stop me, now that I've captured you!." She wickedly giggled.
"Now my minions, bring them to the torture chamber." Eve smiled at them and blew a kiss towards Akuma. Her soldiers then forced them out of their seats and dragged them out of the room.
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"Crap. Sneaking in a base that's in red alert is harder than I thought." Maverick grumbled as the three quietly crawled into the ventilation shaft.
"Damnit Jace your ass can fill my whole frontal view man. I hope you don't crack a bad one for me." Dante quietly spoke as both he and his brother started to laugh.
"Why don't you two shut up about that-- And my ass isn't that bad!" Jace growled.
"Whatever... You are always sneaking in those midnight ice cream snacks every night." Dante whispered.
"He does? Oh I gotta tell THAT to Kigen!" Maverick snickered as they continued to crawl through the vents.
"Knock it off you two. I'm serious this time!" But before he could finish his sentence, Jace looked down into an opening to see three being pushed around.
"Hey! There they are!" Dante whispered to them as they continued to look down. As they waited for the soldiers to pass their view, He gave the Que. to open the vent and jump on them. The soldiers were knocked cold.
"Surprised to see us?" Dante smirked.
"Kigen? Are you all right?" Before Maverick could say anything, Kigen had rushed to give him a hug.
"Kigen's all right. She got knocked out by one of Eve's henchmen, but other than that, she's all right." Akuma messed up Kigen's hair.
"Wow! Maverick, you didn't tell me that your girlfriend's one tough cookie!" Dante was amazed about what Akuma had said.
"You don't know the half of it, Dante." Maverick looked around to see that the close was clear. He motioned the group to a safe position, where they had observed if any guards were visible. Quickly, the group quickened their pace, as they looked for an escape.
They're seemed to easy but, fear wasn't an option, their priority was to get out of the base and find a safe house for the moment. Few more steps, a few more breaths, then they would be home free. But just as they rushed out of the door, they were met with soldiers, surrounding them with rifles aimed at them.
"Shit... How'd they know?!" Jace hissed as he gently pushed his sister behind him.
"Guess we didn't plan for a safe retreat... Or entrance..." Dante sighed nonchalance as he raised his hand in surrender.
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"Man, we've caught all of them, just when they were escaping." One of the soldiers spoke onto a communicator.
"Good... Capture them, and DO NOT kill them, that is an order." With that, the soldiers slowly crept up on them, as they placed their finger onto the rifle's trigger. Step by step, they went closer to the group as they space grew tighter and crowded.
"Hm... You think that putting us into this situation will stop us from escaping... Well you're sadly mistaken." With that, the tensity of Akuma's eyes flared up with fierceness. He then vanished into thin air, as two soldiers dropped onto the ground. A few started to drop like flies as flashes of Akuma's sleeves were partly seen through the naked eye. His friends watched as one by one, soldiers were knocked out cold.
"Um... Should we help him?" Cypher looked at his friends.
"Nah... I want to see how this will end. Plus he's not showing his full potential...." Dante grinned as he continued to watch Akuma's fighting abilities.
"NO! We should help him NOW! I can't just stand here and watch him fight this alone!" Kigen ran up to the soldiers and started to help Akuma fight their way out of the crowd of soldiers, blocking their way out.
"Unno, Kigen's right, the only way out of this hell hole, is through them!" Maverick too ran towards the crowd as he threw some punches towards the crowd. One by one soldiers were being knocked out cold. As Maverick, Akuma and Kigen made a path out of the crowd. Dante shrugged and joined the fun as Cypher and Jace followed behind.
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In a darkened room, light was being emitted from a television screen as it monitored the fight. Slowly stroking a teddy bear's head, a small smile came out of the figures face.
"Ahh... How he fights makes my whole body tingle with joy. His fierceness, to save his friends makes him even more interesting... TEDY! I'VE GOT IT! I need him by my side... I need him by my side to be MY dark knight of terror! Teddy! I HAVE FOUND MY DARK KNIGHT OF TERROR AT LAST!!" She squealed with joy as he held her teddy up into the air and held it into her chest, squeezing it with pure joy.
"Everyone down there in that little squabble.... Don't let that red-haired boy escape!"
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"Damn they're very persistent on not letting us escape!" Dante threw a punch at a nearby enemy and took his gun away from him.
"Well it would've been easier if we had OUR weapons ne?" Cypher too grabbed a weapon from an enemy soldier and started to fire at their limbs.
"Usually we kill them off, but today, but I just feel like escaping and staying alive..." Akuma threw another punch rendering a soldier unconscious. Soon, the crowd grew lesser and lesser as they dropped down. They way of escape came closer and closer as they endured the pain of their limbs throwing all their might to get rid of their imprisonment.
"YES! And we're outta here!" Dante ran out of the crowd as he wiped the blood off of the side of his mouth. Soon after, Cypher came out of the crowd and followed Dante towards the bushes. Maverick and Jace kicked his way out as he grabbed a gun and shot soldiers that tried to bring the two back to the base, Kigen ran out as Akuma followed her. They were almost home free, when a soldier suddenly hid Akuma right on the back of his head. He fell to his knee, as Kigen stopped and tried to run back to aid her friend.
"AKUMA!" She wailed hopelessly as the enemy soldiers started to crowd around him.
"Kigen stay there! You need to escape. Don't worry about me, I can handle them! I'll be there shortly...." Akuma got up and retaliated against the crowd once more. Stubbornly, Kigen paid no attention to what Akuma had said to her, as she ran back to the crowd.
"Kigen! I SAID GO!.... Maverick, Dante, Anyone, GET HER OUT OF HERE NOW!" The mass crowd then blocked his face as they held him back.
"NOOOOO! I won't leave you here to fend for yourself! I want to help -- I can't just leave my best friend here! I SIMPLY CAN'T AKUMA!" Kigen was almost there, but was knocked out by a blow to the gut.
"Sorry to do that to you, Kigen... No harsh feeling ne?" Dante whispered as Kigen looked at him, with a tear flowing down her face, right before she collapsed and fell into his arms.
"Thanks Dante, I'm glad that you all were able to escape.." He thought to himself.
"IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO?!" He yelled aloud, as he fiercely threw blows towards his enemies.
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Few minutes has past, as the group finally arrived to the jeep that Jace and the rest brought. There, Kigen opened her eyes, and shot up, looking for her dear friend.
"Akuma? AKUMA?!" she looked around and found that he wasn't there.
"WHERE'S AKUMA?!" She hissed at them, but to find out that grief was in their eyes, as it grew silent. She then looked at Dante and growled furiously. Angered by Dante's decision to take her away from her friend, Kigen rushed up to him and threw a punch onto Dante's face, leaving him to step back a bit from the impact.
"How could you? How could you leave him there?!" Tears formed near her eyes as he voice trembles with sadness.
"There's wasn't anything we could do to save Akuma, Kigen we had no choice. He wanted us to keep you safe." Dante felt bad for leaving him there, but he knew that Akuma wanted her to be safe. Kigen collapsed onto the ground as Maverick leaned next to her and tries to comfort the grief stricken teenager.
"Come on... We have to leave before they all try to look for us...." Maverick gently spoke to his girlfriend.
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Days have gone by, and there was nothing that they could do but, sit there and "try" to act as if nothing had happened. But to Kigen, isolated herself from her friends, family, and the world. Locked up in her room, her drapes darkened her room, as the feel of her room was soiled with a cold dead feeling.
"Kigen... I brought you some food..." Maverick slowly entered her room, as he held a tray of food.
"Brought you, your favorite, sushi and a bottle of Arizona ginseng tea with honey." He placed the tray on a nearby tray, which was already filled with the food that he brought before.
"You didn't touch your food that much Kigen. Don't do this to yourself... It's not healthy for you. Everyone, including your brother, is worried about you." He looked at the nibbled food and shook his head as we walked towards Kigen's bed and sat beside of her. Her whole body was covered with her soft blanket, Maverick just simply looked at her and sighed.
"Kigen..." He then gently took off the blanket to see pillows in her place as he sighed deeply.
"You went off to fix your gundam again..." He gazed up into the ceiling and sighed again.
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The noise of metal hitting against metal was echoed inside the semi empty hangar, as Kigen unscrewed a bolt that held a metal plate. He carefully took it off to expose the wires and chips that were hidden behind the plate. She then flipped the screen of her laptop open and turned it on.
"What am I going to do...? I'm totally lost; I can't eat and sleep because I worry about what they're going to do to my best friend... We've been there to help each other through thick and thin and NOW I wasn't there to help him..." She clenched a wrench as tight as she could as blood trickled down from her first.
"Kigen... There you are." Maverick opened the door too see Kigen in the cockpit of her gundam. She simply looked at him and then continued to work on upgrading her gundam's computer system. He used the elevator to go onto a bridge that went towards the gundam cockpit. Still holding the tray in his hand, he smiled then looked down and noticed the blood that was on the ground near her.
"Aww. Kigen. You hurt yourself again. Why'd you do that?" Maverick placed the tray down on the floor and took out a napkin that was in his back pocket. He then took Kigen's hand and started to clean the blood from off her hand.
"I know you're still upset about my brother's decision, but he's very sorry." Maverick took out long linen from his back pocket and started to wrap it around Kigen's wound. He then picked up the tray and sat near Kigen.
"I brought you some sushi and a bottle of your favorite drink." He set it in front of Kigen and looked at her. She looked back at him and then to the tray of food that he had brought.
Her appetite didn't bother her; she didn't mind it at all due to her training. So she shrugged and went back to work.
"Oh c'mon Kigen! You need to eat! You need your strength so we can find a way to get Akuma back!" Maverick grabbed her and brought her to his attention. The worried look that flared into his eyes, made Kigen's dull eyes glow a bit. Hearing Maverick saying that they were going to find a way to save Akuma from his hellish prison made a spark of light glow within her heart and body. Her lips were moving as a noise came out of her.
"Yes? What do you want to say, Kigen?" Maverick was anxious to hear her say something since days.
"Are we going to save Akuma, Mavy?" Her voice was hoarse due to her being mute for a few days.
"Of course honey, but in order to do that, we all need you to be strong and healthy." Maverick gently smiled back at her. He then let go of her shoulders as he noticed that she grabbed a piece of sushi and popped it into her mouth.
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Meanwhile, Eve holds Akuma hostage, as she tries to break his pride and mind apart. Failure occurs when trying to tie him up by his wrist and suspending him up in mid air. About two dozen or so of her henchmen then surrounded him as they beat Akuma up.
"Is that all you guys have...? .... You all are fools for not killing me!' Akuma's head was limp as he tried to look up at them.
"You'll regret it..." Akuma started to grin a bit as blood trickled down his face.
"Sure... Whatever you say BOY! How can you kill us when you're hanging there?" One of the soldiers started to laugh. The others joined. But meanwhile, Akuma took out a small object that he had hid in the rope that restrained him, a small broken piece of glass he had found in his cell. Quietly he starts to unravel the tightly knit rope as they continued to laugh.
"You're very hilarious kid, too bad your going to be unconscious after this." But before he could strike his fist into Akuma's gut, the red-haired boy kicked the soldier in the face, as teeth and blood spattered into the rest of the soldiers and the floor. Akuma then landed on the floor and stood up.
"Now... I'll finish my promise to you all." A maniacal grin came out of his face as he threw a punch toward an unexpected soldier's face. Several punches were thrown towards the group of soldiers as one by one they fell down to the floor. Akuma looked towards the left side of him. A table full of weapons was laid onto the table as he ran towards them. He then quickly gazed upon the weapons to verify the most destruction on a person, a bow and it's arrows, a dagger, samurai sword, and kali sticks. He then grabbed the bow and arrows as he grabbed one of the arrows and placed it onto its bow. He pulled the arrow and the string back and shot it towards the unexpecting soldiers. The arrow pierced three enemy soldiers right into their hearts as blood gushed out from the wound. Akuma shot some more arrows towards them as more of his enemies fell down from the arrows impact. Once the arrow supplies went down to zero, he then grabbed the dagger and threw in towards an enemy that came too close to him. He then stared at his favorite weapon, a samurai sword and smiled. Fierce strikes were thrown with the sword as the sharpened blade had hit the various body and limbs of Akuma's enemies as one by one they bled profusely and knocked dead from lack of blood and or an instant blow that killed them. Entrails flooded the floors as more of Eve's men were turning into corpses.
Now was his chance to run out of his hellhole, as he swiftly ran towards the exit, with the sword in his hand. Once he got out of his "torture" chamber, he paid careful attention to where he came from and where the soldiers were exiting. He followed his instincts, as he was inches away from the door. No one was there to stop him, due to him killing them in that hideous room. He kicked the door open to see that he was close to freedom.
"A couple more yards and I'm home free!" Akuma chuckled with happiness. But he felt a sharp pring in the back of his neck. He used his free hand to find out that there was a syringe lick dart stuck there.
"SHIT! I've... Been..." Slurring in his swords, he collapsed onto the floor as he lazily looked up. But before the drugs could knock him up, he could see a female looking down at him.
All he could see as me made the words that were coming up from her mouth was, "Gotcha...."
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"Welp I got Kigen to eat something decent..." Maverick flopped down onto the couch as the others watched the news.
"She's been fixing that gundam thingy again?" Cypher averted his attention from the TV towards Maverick. He nodded as he then paid attention towards the television screen.
"Now all we have to do is to find out were Eve brought Akuma to, since she always on the move."
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Air bubbles raced each other as they floated up towards the opening of a liquid like mechanism that was held in place with a clear Cylinder much like one that would hold a large specimen that were up in display in one of those formaldehyde filled jar. The only means of breathing was a breathing mechanism that jet pilots' use when they're in high altitudes.
"How's the patient?" A female voice spoke amongst the darkened room.
"He's fine, we've finished the modification of his mind, like you demanded. He should follow your every command once he is awaken." The doctor typed some order of commands into the computer that was linked towards the patient's brain. No surgery was used throughout this whole operation, all they had to do was to place wires onto the first couple layers of the patients skin.
"Excellent.." She purred in delight as she strides forward, calmly as she looked up at the figure that was partly floating in its watery chamber. She gracefully touched the coldness of the glass and smiled wickedly as bubbles came out of the breathing mechanism.
"Soon... You shall obey me and then I'll finally be able to get rid of your friends FOREVER!" Another burst of bubbles floated out of the unconscious male as a slight change of his facial expression changed, his eyebrows slightly lowered a bit then went back.
"Kigen.... I'm sorry..." A faint whisper called out.
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Author: Wheww! That was long! I took a long break for this one, like the beginning of second semester to the first quarter of my senior year!
Akuma: You lazy ass! o_o' (I hope that I dun get hurt for saying that!!*Gulp*)
Maverick: Give her a break man! She was busy with her boyfriend (which my character was based upon! *evil chuckle*)
Author: *pushes them off the shot* HEY! You two shaddup! *Tosses a huge hammer right on top of Akuma's head*
Akuma: *with huge bump on head* HEY THAT HURTS!
Maverick, Kigen, and Cypher: * laughing at Akuma's mishap*
Author: well anyways--
Dante: WHOA this is weird! *Looks around the place and whistles*
Author: _* HEY QUITE GETTING INTO MY TIME!
Everyone: *runs away scared*
Author: Ahem... Anyways, the next Episode is about... hmm what was it *looks at her chapter list* The next Episode is called 'The Past.' The title tells all... I hope!
Kigen: *Jumps onto Author's head which makes her fall onto her face* YO!
Author: X.x oww....
Kigen: Whoops *tip toes away* I hurt my other side ^.^ Sorry Author slash the write side of me heheheheh *blots outta there*